[osis-core] Element Review: <item>

[Steve DeRose]

At 11:14 AM -0400 06/17/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>Hrmmmph. It would be a nuisance to have to use <p></p> inside
>every list item. An alternate solution to handling list items
>with multiple paragraphs (apparently) would be to use a new
>list item of a different type, e.g.
>
><list>
>   <item> item 1
>   <item> item 2 first paragraph
>   <item type="continue"> item 2 second paragraph.
></list>
>
>It messes with the semantics of "item" a bit though.  I'm not sure
>which I prefer.
>
>-Harry
>

I'm not fond of either, myself. the extra p's seem cumbersome, and 
the item subtype will confuse auto-numbering since it's not *really* 
an item. sigh.

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